Cole J. Harvey, PhD

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Oklahoma State University

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Hello and welcome!  I am a political scientist who studies non-democratic politics, with a particular focus on electoral manipulation in authoritarian and hybrid regimes. My geographic area of expertise is Russia and the post-communist world. I received my PhD from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill in May 2019; I held a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, and am currently an assistant professor at Oklahoma State University.

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I use multiple tools in my research, including statistical analysis, methods for causal inference (such as regression-discontinuity designs and pre-processing techniques), field interviews, archival study, and survey-experimental research. My work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Electoral Studies, Democratization, and Government and Opposition, Europe-Asia Studies, and Russian Politics.